From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston, Mass., by L. Prang, in 1863. Toy book cut in the shape of a standing Little Red Riding Hood. Title from illustrated paper cover. "Entered according to act of Congress, in...

From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by Hurd and Houghton, and printed by Fahnestock in 1866, copyright 1864. Story told in verse by Richard Henry Stoddard ; illustrated by Alfred Fredericks ; engraved in colors...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of local African-American girl Peggy Copeland, granddaughter of activist Vassie Patton, playing in a water puddle in front of True Light Baptist Church...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of volunteer Sandra Adickes (center) (New York City; a teacher in the Harlem public schools), teaching one of her Freedom School classes at Priest...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of volunteer Sandra Adickes (center) (New York City; a teacher in the Harlem public schools), teaching one of her Freedom School classes at Priest...

A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

A collection of six interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on April 26, 2006 with Ursula Daxecker. A native of Austria, Daxecker came to New Orleans as a graduate student. After her home was flooded in Hurricane Katrina, Daxecker moved to Northern Virginia. She has...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 28, 2007 with Elizabeth Marks Doolittle, Public Services Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. Ms. Doolittle discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina.

Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.